There is to be a four-hour playing session, with time control to be confirmed. Digital clocks will be used. Team members are asked to arrive no later than 12.45 pm.

The Yorkshire v Lancashire under-140 and under-180 matches will be held at the same venue and date this season. The under‑140 match will be in the main Wakefield Sports Club building. (The bowling green hut is to house most of the under-180 match.)

As there are just two teams in the N.C.C.U. under-140 competition, both will progress to the E.C.F. knockout stages. (It is not necessary to be an E.C.F. member to participate at the N.C.C.U. stage, but E.C.F. membership to at least bronze level is required for the E.C.F. knockout stages.) Whichever team wins this match wins the appropriate N.C.C.U. county trophy, has the theoretically easier route to the finals and will probably have to travel shorter distances to matches. When the E.C.F. stages take place, the matches will be over 16 boards, so I need as large a pool of players as possible.

The pool of players (in alphabetical order) for the Yorkshire under-140 team, including two reserves, is as follows:

Aditya Tangirala	138A
Alec Grice	133A
Andy Ross	134A
Chris Tinker	137A
Dale Cullum	121A
Dave Stothard	134C
Ian Strickland	129A
John Holliday	130B
Neville Pearce	131A
Norman Andrews	128A
Paul Allison	136C
Paul Gelder	129A
Phil Beckett	139F
Richard White	121D

Grades quoted are E.C.F. grades as of July 2017, which determine qualification for the E.C.F. competitions. Some players may have moved above the 140 threshold with their January 2018 grade but that does not disqualify them from this category.

David G. Mills (Yorkshire under-120 and under-140 grade county captain)

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